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Poem by Hilaire Belloc


On Vital Statistics


Ill fares the land to hast’ning ills a prey (1) 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.’ 
But how much more unfortunate are those 
Where wealth declines and population grows! 

(1)This line is execrable; and I note it.
I quote it as the faulty poet wrote it.



Hilaire Belloc


Hilaire Belloc's other poems:
  1. To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
  2. To Dives
  3. Noël
  4. Ballade of Modest Confession
  5. Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull


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